Garment-supporter.



PATENYTED MAR. 24, 1903.

A. H. UOHN.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1902.

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UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH H. COHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 723,367, dated March 24, 1903.

Application filed November 8, 1902. Serial No. 130,479. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ADOLPH H. COHN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a description.

Myinvention consists in certain'novel parts and combinations of parts specifically pointed out in the claims concluding this specification.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention applied in forms which are at present preferred by me; but it will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention and without exceeding the scope of my claims.

The following is a description of the hosesupporter shown in the annexed drawings, in which similar reference-numerals in the figures-are applied to the same or to corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective viewof one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modified form of my invention, some of the parts being broken away.

Referring to Fig. 1, 8 is a belt passing around the waist of the wearer. 4and 4c? are pads attached to said beltand permanently fastened together by an eyelet 5 and detachably fastened together by glove-fasteners 6 6 6 of or- 7 is a metal part consisting of a hook or other suitable means for engagement with the eye or stud of a corset-clasp or to the busks in the central line of the corset. 8 8 8 8 are stocking-supporting tapes, with means for attachment to stockings dependent from the'lower edge of said pads, which tapes 8 and attaching-hooks 7 being of ordinary form and well known in the art need not be specifically described.

Referring to Fig. 2, the pad 4" in this figure difiers from the pad shown in Fig. l in that instead of being made of two parts it is made integral. It is provided at its upper ends with a band or belt 3, and at the center of its upper surface is attached the hook 7, adapted to engage with the corset-clasp. From the lower edge of the pad depend the stocking-supporters 8 8 8 8, like those shown in Fig. 1.

Some of the hose-supporters of the belt type I heretofore made and used are objectionable in that the supporters are not attached to the corset when the latter are removed from the body of the wearer and when in use are liable to slip or be misplaced and do not directly pull down the front of the corset in a vertical line. Hose-supporters have been designed to overcome these difficulties in which, however, the pad was attached by metal devices to both the eye and the clasp of the c0rset that is, at two independent points on the corset. My present improvement is designed to obviate all these objectionable features and to provide a hose-supporter of the belt type which may be permanently attached to the corset without being attached to both sides thereof. In the construction shown in Fig. 1 an additional advantage is secured in that the glove-fasteners, as shown in that figure, ma remain unbuttoned, in which case the pul of the stocking-supporting tapes is concentrated on a single point in direct lines,

'that pointbeing adjacent to the corset-clasp, while all the advantages of the pads are retained. If preferred, the glove-fastening attachrnents may be used in engagement, in which case the strain is more distributed.

Having described my invention in the form at present preferred by me, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is-- l. A hose-supporter comprising a pad, a device attached to the top of the pad adapted to engage with the corset-clasp, and a band attached to said pad adapted to encircle the waist, and hose-supporting tapes depending from said pad.

2. A hose-supporter comprising a pad made of two parts, a device attached to the top of the pad adapted to engage with the corsetclasp, a band attached to the parts of said pad adapted to encircle the waist, and hosesupporting tapes depending from said parts.

3. A hose-supporter comprising apad made in two parts permanently attached together at their upper ends, a device attached to the top of said pad adapted to engage with the corsetclasp, a band attached to said parts adapted to encircle the Waist, and hose-supl a band adapted to encircle the waist, and porting tapes depending from said parts. hose-supporting tapes depending from said 4. Ahose-supporter comprisingapad made I parts; in two parts, permanently united at their up- In testimony whereof I have signed my [5 5 per ends and detachably united below, means name in the presence of two subscribing witforsupporting said pad, and hose-supporting nesses.

tapes dependent from said pad. v

5. Ahose-supportercomprisingapad made ADOLPH COHN' in two parts permanently united at theirup- WVitnessesz A [0 per ends and detachably united below, means E. N. ROBINSON,

for engaging said parts with the corset-clasp, WALTER A. PAULING. 

